The literati; some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits
Subtitle: with occasional words of personality
Contributors: Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857
Publisher: J. S. Redfield; B. Mussey & co.
Published: 1850
Place of publication: New-York; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
Subjects: History and criticism; American literature
Table of contents: title: PREFACE TO THE MEMOIR, v; title: MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,.. vii; title: The Poetic Principle, 1; title: Of Criticism — Public and Private, 21 <; title: George Bush, 24; title: George H. Colton, 26; title: K. P. Willis,..-. 27; title: William M. Gillespie, 34; title: Charles F. Briggs, 35; title: William Kirkland, 37; title: t ohn W. Francis, 38; title: na Cora Mowatt, 40; title: irge B. Cheever, 44; title: ;rles Anthon, 45; title: ,PH HOYT, 47; title: JAN C. Verplanck, , 49; title: eeman Hunt, 50; title: x J IERO Maroncelli, 52; title: Laughton Osborn, 53; title: Fitz-Greene Halleck, 56; title: Ann S. Stephens, 62; title: Evert A. Duyckinck, 63; title: Mary Gove (Nichols,) • 65; title: James Aldrich, 66; title: Henry Carey, 68; title: Christopher Pease Cranch, 69; title: Sarah Margaret Fuller (d'Ossoli,) 72; title: James Lawson, 79; title: Caroline M. Kirkland, 80; title: Prosper M. Wetmore, 83; title: Emma C. Embury, 84; title: Epes Sargent, 85; title: Frances Sargent Osgood, 87; title: Lydia M. Child, 99; title: Thomas Dunn Brown, 101; title: Elizabeth Bogart, 104; title: Catherine M. Sedgwick, i 105; title: Lewis Gatlord Clark, 107; title: Anne C. Lynch, Ill; title: Charles Fenno Hoffman, 112; title: Mary E. Hewitt, 116; title: Richard Adams Locke, 120; title: Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 128; title: J. G. C. Brainard, 138; title: Rufus Dawes, 145; title: Thomas Ward — " Flaccus," 157; title: William W. Lord, 167; title: William Cullen Bryant, ^ 178; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 188; title: Elizabeth Frieze Ellett, 202; title: Amelia B. Welby, 203; title: Bayard Taylor, 207; title: Henry B. Hirst, 209; title: Robert Walsh, 212; title: Seba Smith, 215; title: Margaret Miller and Lucretia Maria Davidson, 219; title: William Ellery Channing, 229; title: William Ross Wallace, 240; title: Estelle Anna Lewis, 242; title: Joel T. Headley, 249; title: George P. Morris, 253; title: Robert M. Bird, 257; title: Cornelius Mathews, 262; title: William Gilmore Simms, 272; title: James Russell Lowell,.;. 275; title: Rufus W. Griswold and the Poets,. . 283; title: Mr. Longfellow and other Plagiarists, 1 292; title: Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Willis, and the American Drama, 334; title: Longfellow's Ballads, 363; title: J. Rodman Drake and Thomas Moore — Fancy and Imagination,.... 374; title: E. P. Whipple and other Critics, 382; title: J. Fenimore Cooper, 389; title: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 401; title: R. H. Horne, 425; title: Thomas Babington Macaulay, 444; title: Charles Lever, , 447; title: Francis Maryatt, 456; title: Henry Cockton, 460; title: Charles Dickens, 464; title: Marginalia, 483; title: Fifty Suggestions, 597